Actually, it's apparently pretty tough to go the other way - you'll notice it's a POWERED converter. I'm starting to think I should just get over it and get a current Dreamcolor or whatever Dell is popular with the editing kids these days…
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> On Apr 7, 2017, at 11:27 AM, bigfish@pacbell.net [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> I know I have mini display port to DVI adapters that I use on my GTX-680. That's going the opposite way you want but I'm curious if you can go one way why can't you go the other way? If you can convert mini display port protocol to DVI I would assume it is at least technically possible to go the other way.
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> So is it that no one has bothered to build the opposite direction adapter?
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> ---In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, <Greg@...> wrote :
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> And, finally, disregard this query. I've googled enough to finally find a definitive answer - NO. You cannot adapt a mini display port to a DVI graphics card. Entirely different protocol, not just different connectors. Bye-bye mac branded monitors.
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> gh
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> Greg Huson
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> > On Apr 6, 2017, at 2:55 PM, Greg Huson Greg@... [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> > Sorry, no system for posting photos that I'm aware of.
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> > The correct term is 'mini display port' - looking to use that monitor connection (male) with a graphics card that only has a femail DVI connection.
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> > (I'm looking at second-hand mac LED monitors, pre-thunderbolt.)
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> > I don't think the adapter exists; there may be a technical reason for it.
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> > gh
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> > > On Apr 6, 2017, at 2:02 PM, Damon Claussen damon@... [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> > > (mini monitor plug) can post pic of this?
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> > >> On Apr 6, 2017, at 11:04 AM, Greg Huson Greg@... [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> > >> Looks like one of my first-generation cinema displays just retired. I'd love to keep using these, but never really liked the off-color fluorescent-backed LCD, so would prefer to use an LED backed model. of course, my monitor extender is DVI. Is there an adapter to put the mini-plug into a DVI graphics card? There are TONS of adapters to go the other way - to plug a DVI into a mini-monitor plug (or whatever it's called) on a graphics card. Anyone seen one the other way?
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> > >> I could go Dell, but, you know, love that aluminum frame. Also, my Dell and HP monitors seem to die WAY faster - years sooner, in fact. This is the first time a mac monitor has failed on me, actually.
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> > >> gh
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